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Oak Hill Cottage
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Oak Hill Cottage , built in 1847 by John Robinson, superintendent of the Sandusky, Mansfield, and Newark Railroad , is an historic Gothic Revival brick house with Carpenter Gothic ornamentation located at 310 Springmill Street in Mansfield , Ohio , in the United States .
It was acquired by Dr. Johannes Jones in 1864 and was the home of his family for over a century. Oak Hill Cottage was the setting of The Green Bay Tree , Mansfield native Louis Bromfield 's first novel. 2
On June 11 , 1969 , it was added to the National Register of Historical Places . It is now the Oak Hill Cottage and Museum .
Current use
The house was bought in 1965 by the Richland County Historical Society which has restored it and now maintains it as a museum open to the public. 3
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